BUENOS AIRES – Argentina will present to the United Nations a copy of the formal protest Buenos Aires conveyed to the British government over London’s plans to hold military exercises in the disputed Falkland Islands, Ambassador Jorge Argüello said Monday.

“We will ask U.N. secretary-general (Ban Ki-moon) to distribute among the members of the organization a copy of the protest to put on record this new violation of United Nations resolutions,” Argentina’s envoy to the world body told state news agency Telam.

“And we will insist on the task with which the U.N. General Assembly has already charged him (Ban), which is to carry forward this action of good offices aimed at the opening of bilateral negotiations about sovereignty,” Argüello said.

The U.N. Special Committee on Decolonization issued a resolution in 1965 urging London and Buenos Aires to negotiate the future of the Falklands, but Britain refuses to discuss the question of sovereignty over the South Atlantic archipelago that Latin Americans call the Malvinas.

The quarrel dates from 1833, when Britain occupied the islands, and sparked a brief but bloody war in 1982.